Life
1899-1972; b. Wexford; ed. CBS; joined Irish Volunteers, 1917; IRA in Anglo-Irish War; opposed Treaty; spent two years in Maryborough, then Curragh (Tintown); ed. of Parkside Publications, Dublin; ed. Irish Press, 1957; ed. Sunday Press, 1962-1968; novels include The Irish Volunteer (1932), and The Legion of the Rearguard (1934); served in old IRA; d. April, Dublin. DIB IF2
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References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt. II] (Cork: royal Carbery 1985), lists The Irish Volunteer (London: Dent 1932), 280p. [straightforward narrative of Art, son of small-town shoemaker, ‘on the run’; Black and Tans, &c.]; includes meeting with Michael Collins; Tailteann Prize winner; The Legion of the Rearguard (London: Dent 1934), 272pp.; [set in Civil War; Paul Davin; ambushes, jail-breaks, capture and internment; Treaty debate; Dublin fighting; election; de Valera’s appearance in Ennis; his movements in disguise; hunger-strikes]; devoid of bitterness.
Belfast Public Library holds Irish Volunteer (1932) [autobiog.]; Two and fifty Irish Saints (1941).
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